Unbuilt Aircraft Projects

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The First Soviet Aircraft Designed to Carry an Atomic Bomb: The “64” Strategic Bomber (Tu-64). Why Did It Never Take Off?
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Even in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet leadership recognized the strategic importance of developing its own nuclear weapons. In 1943, the ...

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Reimar Horten's Unknown Fighter Aircraft Designs. Part 1
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All parts of the article An article from the magazine *Flugzeug Classic* (July 2004 issue) that I think will be of interest to readers and colleagues. ...

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From “RS” to “SR”: The History of the Development and Joint Work on Supersonic Bombers and Missile Carriers in the USSR
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In the mid-20th century, following the first successful tests of Soviet nuclear weapons in 1949 and 1951, as well as the development of the compact but ...

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A Victim of Perestroika: A Joint Project by Tupolev and Antonov. The Tu-674 “Apogee” Spaceplane, Which Was Supposed to Revolutionize the Industry
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Not long ago, the Stratolaunch air-launch aerospace system was under development in the United States. The system was quite thoroughly designed; in fact, a ...

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The Flying Triangle: The Convair XF-92 Experimental Fighter. Part 1
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All parts of the cycle The beginning of a vintage monograph from nearly thirty years ago (Issue No. 05, 1996, of the magazine “Letectví + ...

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A Second Life for a Myasishchev Passenger Aircraft: The NAL Saras Multipurpose Civil Aircraft. India
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In the 1990s, the Russian aviation industry was going through one of the most difficult periods in its history. Aviation design bureaus were on the brink of ...

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The PS-89, the first Soviet high-speed passenger aircraft, never went into mass production
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Although not many people are familiar with this car, this project can be considered fully realized. The car went into production. It’s just that the production ...

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The An-70—a project that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union but did not survive the Maidan in Kyiv
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We have written about the An-70, a promising Soviet—and later Ukrainian—military transport aircraft, on numerous occasions on our website. However, all of ...

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Heavy Helicopter and VTOL Designs by I.P. Bratukhin (USSR, 1947–1956)
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An article from Alex Raigorodetsky's "military-exotic" channel on the Blogspot platform. The name Ivan Pavlovich Bratukhin is far less well-known than ...

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Winged Ergonomics. The Fairchild XNQ-1 Experimental Trainer Aircraft. United States
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An article from more than twenty years ago in the magazine *Le Fana de l’Aviation* (Issue No. 377, April 2001), which I think will be of interest to ...

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